October: Cyber Security Events, and Women Engineers Gather in Philly

STEMRules celebratesNational Cyber Security Awareness Month three ways. The events, below, capture a sampling of many of the cyber security and other STEM events happening nationwide. STEMRules also cheers about the Society of Women Engineers conference at month-end.

Plus STEMRules publishes its first Cyber Security gallery mid-October to introduce you to black, Hispanic, Native American, and women of color Cyber Security specialists that you need to know.

October 3 – 7, New York City, New York, USA. The host is the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems Users, Data, and Computing. ACM is a global educational and scientific computing society. Mobicon addresses networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the interdependence of mobile computers and wireless networks.

DreamForce ‘16, October 4 – Fri, October 7 – San Francisco. Dreamforce is an annual software conference hosted by Salesforce, the San Francisco cloud computing company.

Keynote speakers include:

Robin L. Washington, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, Gilead Sciences. She oversees Gilead’s Global Finance and IT groups. Gilead is a research-based biopharmaceutical company. Washington, a CPA, received her BBA in Accounting from the University of Michigan and a MBA in Strategy and Finance from Pepperdine University. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, an organization for the development of global black leaders.

Bright Simons, from Ghana, is President of mPedigree Network, a mobile platform that consumers use to check instantly if products, particularly health-related one are counterfeits or not by sending a free text message.

Muyinatu Bell is an Assistant Professor, with joint appointments in the departments of electrical & computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) She is also Director of the JHU Pulse Lab also known as the Photoacoustic & Ultrasonic Systems Engineering Lab.

Christine Ho is CEO of Imprint Energy, Inc. It is a battery technology company developing ultrathin, flexible, zinc-based rechargeable batteries using its proprietary ZincPoly technology.

Dr. Aaron Drew is the Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

Tina Hampton is the AVP, Product Marketing Management at AT&T and has over 15 years of experience in the managed security services, cloud computing, enterprise and consumer mobility, and Smart TV industry.

Joyce Hunter, Deputy CIO, Policy and Planning at the US Dept. of Agriculture.

Mireille Toulekima, founder and Managing Director, MT Energy Resources, an independent oil and gas consulting company, in Perth, Australia. Toulekima is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, The Oil and Gas Council, and the Global Women Petroleum Club. She is a noted champion and advocate for diversity and women leadership and advancement in the energy sector.

O’Reilly Security Conference, Oct 30-31, New York Hilton Midtown, New York, NY. O’Reilly Media is launching its first Security Conference, bringing together security practitioners from many organizations and idustries to share insights